Forrest Gump Movie Review

The movie Forrest Gump is very historically accurate. It had three main events that actually happened. Those events were, the Vietnam War, the Integration act at the university in Alabama and the hurricane that struck the Gulf of mexico(Hurricane Carmen). With the Vietnam war being the biggest of the events, but it wasn’t entirely correct. The other event were smaller and sort of the side events that was happening throughout the movie. Those were the hippie movement, the Watergate scandal and the Black Panther Party. Throughout the movie I was following Forest and comparing just how accurate his part in the movie is, as opposed to the actual history of those events.

To Kill a Mockingbird is an alluring novel filled with many lessons. When creating the movie, did the director portray the same interpretation that the novel showed? This novel is about a girl named Scout and her brother, Jem who lives in Maycomb Alabama during the Great Depression. During their summer they befriend a boy named Dill, they start to spy on their reclusive neighbor Boo Radley. Many things change for Scout and Jem when Atticus, their father is assigned to a case to defend a black man accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell. The novel was written by Nelle Harper Lee, who was born in 1926 in a small town in Alabama. Robert Mulligan directed the movie and released it two years after it was published. The differences between

The special effects of a movie can be an important aspect to completing the film but it is important to make sure they are integrated properly into a film and that the effects are credible to the audience. “The real measure of an effects success has become how well the effect is integrated into the storyline of the film.” (Petrie & Boggs, 2012) Beetlejuice is a film about two recently dead ghost who employ the services of Beetlejuice in order to get rid of the family who have taken over their home. Special effects play a large role in creating this film.

"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not," said Flannery O 'Conner, who is the author of " The Life You Save May be Your Own" (BrainyQuote). Flannery O 'Connor was a Roman Catholic and she often reflect her faith in her writings. She is one of the most famous American Literature writer who writes in the style of Southern Gothic (Holt 940). And this short stories of hers has gothic humor in it because it contains both horror and romance. In "The Life You Save May be Your Own", O 'Connor used symbolism and imagery to bring out her theme, which is moral corruption and the search of the meaning of life.

Many movies use imagery to make a point. For example the movie “The Patriot” by Mel Gibson, the main character Benjamin Martin is trying to keep his family and country in tact during the Revolutionary war. He uses four symbols, the Toy Soldiers, the North Star, the Cross, and the American Flag.

Forrest Gump (1994), an American comedy-drama film based on the novel by Winston Groom, with the screenplay adapted by Eric Roth, tells the story of a mentally disabled and very kind-hearted child that comes to lead an extraordinary life. The movie revolves around the irony that the protagonist, Forrest Gump, even though the most simple-minded character in the film, becomes the most successful, as his talents involve him in US history's most prominent historical events between the 50's and 80's. The storyline is very character-driven and resembles a ‘vignette into one's life' as opposed to having a traditional story structure. This is seen through the feather motif and the well-known

Love is a funny thing, it doesn’t always turn out the way we want it too and we can’t choose who we love. The main theme of James Baldwin’s story “Giovanni’s Room” is that love is difficult, scary, and not always what you expect. Although many people thrive on the love they feel for someone, David finds it to be a terrifying and confusing thing. In “Giovanni’s Room” David is reflecting on how he found love when he less expected it and was afraid, saddened, and even a little ashamed by it.

The movie I selected to watch was What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. I never have seen the movie and I noticed many students had in class, so I figured it would be a good one to watch. There was a lot going on in the movie relating to challenges the family faced. The family was white, they lived in poverty in the middle of nowhere, their youngest brother was on the autism spectrum and the family was trying to cope after their father’s suicide. It seemed that things went downhill fast after the father’s suicide in their own basement. The mother shut down, and had gained a lot of weight and was struggling with depression. The children were taking care of each other and their mother while she was pretty much dependent on the couch. Gilbert, the oldest son was the care taker of the youngest son who had a

    Buddy the Elf, as he is known to many, was a normal baby who accidentally crawled into Santa’s sack on Christmas one year. Buddy was raised at the North Pole along with all of the other elves. Life was completely normal for Buddy up until he noticed that he was way larger than the rest of the elves and did not fit in with them. Santa soon realized this too, and sent Buddy to New York City in search of his real family. While there he finds his father, who he tries to restore the Christmas spirit in, and a few other people along the way, all while encountering many twists and turns and adventures. The wonderful film was released on November 7th, 2003, by director Jon Favreau. The wildly successful comedy, in its opening weekend alone it made approximately 31 million, and a gross box office value of around 173 million. IMDb gave Elf  an overall rating of 6.9 out of 10, and Rotten Tomatoes rated the film 84%.

The movie starts with a woman running away in a red dress. She is running is a felid and her face makes her seem that she is worried. Then it shows two men running away from a group of men. This introduces that the two men did something to that girl that made other men mad. It makes the audience interested of what they did

The movie, A League of Their Own, is a moving film that depicts how women emerged from the household after World War II. Women before the war were suppose to be women of the house. People felt the only thing a woman was good for was to cook, clean and take care of the children. After World War II, women wanted to leave the house. This movie depicts how women show they can do the same things as men can do.

Do the right thing shows the distribution of minority races that are acknowledged in the United States. We see a Latina character as Mookie’s girlfriend, as well as one Korean family running their mini market, and we see Italian men running their pizza restaurant and African American people as the major residents in the area. I feel like in the movie, all the characters are being concentrated in one area, to “experiment” the effect of their culture clashes. Furthermore, the movie offers the struggle within the middle to low class community that circulates around hate

The bird is often used throughout The Awakening as a symbol of Edna Pontellier and Mademoiselle Reisz, and the struggles that they face during Edna’s awakening. This symbol functions to enhance the women's characters by magnifying the desire for solitude and provide a deeper context on the endeavor that many women faced during the Victorian Era as they were pressure to follow the same rules.

1917—1960: the development of Hollywood film industry and characterized most styles to this day: biography, fiction, action, horror, animated, comedy, etc.

“Life is not about how hard of a hit you can give… it’s about how many you can take and still keep going.” This is one of Sylvester’s Stallone quotes from the movie Rocky. One of the greatest movies of all time. A lot of research went into this paper. The challenges Sylvester Stallone faced to produce Rocky presented every obstacle, had an all-star cast, and was the greatest underdog story ever told.